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(No Model.) Y A J. O. NORDENSTROM.

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No. 435,944. Patented' Sept. 9, 1890;

UNITED STATEs PATENT. OFFICE.

JOHAN oLAH NoRDENsrRoM, or CAMBRIDGE, MINNESOTA, As'sIeNoR' oF ONE-HALE To PETER E. FREDEEN,. on SAME PLAcE.

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SPECIFICATION formingpartof Letters Patent No. 435,944,1ated. September 9, 1890.

Application tiled March 10, 1890. Serial No. 343,236. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHAN OLAH NoEDEN- STRM, of Cambridge, Isanti county, Minnesota, have invented certain Improvements in Sleds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in sleds adapted to be propelled byhand-power,v

its object being to provide an improved dero vice with either one or two runnersand having suitable attachments by means of which the same may be pushed and guided by hand; and it consists in providing a transverse crossbar or handle supported on standards oen-1 ln the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved sled, shown as constructed with two runners having a'xed seat for a passenger and an adjustable seat 3o for the driver; and Fig. 2 is a perspective of a modified construction having but one runner. f

In the drawings, 2 represents the sled-runners 5 3, the cross-bar connecting them at their forward end; 4, upright standards arranged centrally upon the runners and firmly secured thereto by means of braces 5 and 6, the transverse handle or cross-bar secured to the top of said standards ata convenient height to 4o be grasped by the hands of a person standing behind the same.

Arranged in the rear of the standards 4 upon the sled-runners are steps or stirrups 7 adapted to firmly secure the feet of the driver when standing upon the sled.

I 8 is a fixed seat arranged in front of the standards and having suitable supports 9, upon which a passengeror other load may be carried.

`1O is a saddle supported on a bail 11, the 5o 4ends of which are p ivotally secured to the runners in the rear of the` standards and are held from backward. movement by stops or hooks l2 upon the standards engaging each side of the bail, which permits the saddle to be thrown forward against the standards and out of the Way of thc driver and to be returned to t-he normal position, as shown in Fig. l, when needed for ruse as a seat for the driver.

In the modified construction shown in Fig. 6o 2 the device is constructed, preferably, Without seats, it being'used merely as a means of rapid traveling for-the driver only upon snow and ice in the same manner as the bycicle is used upon the ground. In this construction the device is preferably provided with abracerod 13, loosely secured to the standard and adapted to be swung laterally from the sled with its foot resting on the ground, thus serving to keep the sled in an upright position 7o when not in use, and brace-rods 15 and 16 to thoroughly brace the parts together. Y

' The sled is propelled by a personstanding with one foot in a stirrup With the hands grasping the handle, the other foot stepping upon the ground and used to thrust the sled forward. NVith the momentum thus given to lthe sled or .with that Which it attains of its own Weight in descending a hill, the driver can step Vboth feet into the stirrups and be 8o carried by the sled until it is necessary t again propel it, the course of the sled being easily controlled by means of the handle.

In coasting down a hill with the form of sled shown in Fig. .1 the driver can, if he desires, swing back the saddle S and support himself thereon While being carried bythe sled instead of standing upon the stirrups.

l claim 1. As an improved article of manufacture, 9o a sled having upright standards arrangedl centrally of the runners, a transverse handle supported thereon, and stirrups arranged upon the runners in the rear of said stand# ards, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. As an improved articlel of manufacture, the foregoing-described device having the runners 2, the standards 4, arranged cenment, substantially as and for the purposes trally thereon, a transverse handle 6, secured set forth. 1o

upon said standards,` strrups 7, arranged In testimony whereof I have hereunto set upon said runners in the rear of said'standmy hand this 21st day of February, 189D. ards, the saddle l0, pivotal-1y supported upon J OI-IAN OLAH NORDENSTROM.

' A said runners by mea-ns of the bail-11, and n presence of- 'stops 12 upon said standards engaging with GEORGE DOREMUS,

said bail and holding it from backward move- S. H. MCKUSICK. 

